2012年职称英语复习指导：重难点考前集训57.docVIP

2012年职称英语复习指导：重难点考前集训（57） 　　2012年职称英语考试报名已经开始了，你准备好了吗？在2012年职称英语考试复习过程中，职业培训教育网为考生整理了考试相关资料与大家分享，祝学习愉快！ 　　Have you ever wondered what our future is like? Practically all people _1_ a desire to predict their future _2_.Most people seem inclined to _3_ this task using causal reasoning. First we _4_ recognize that future circumstances are _5_ caused or conditioned by present ones. We learn that getting an education will _6_ how much money we earn later and that swimming beyond the reef may bring an unhappy _7_ with a shark. Second, people also learn that such _8_ of cause and effect are probabilistic(可能的) in nature. That is, the effects occur more often when the causes occur than when the causes are _9_, but not always. Thus, students learn that studying hard _10_ good grades in most instances, but not every time. Science makes these concepts of causality and probability more _11_ and provides techniques for dealing _12_ then more accurately than does causal human inquiry. In looking at ordinary human inquiry, we need to _13_ between prediction and understanding. Often, even if we dont understand why, we are willing to act _14_ the basis of a demonstrated predictive ability. 　　Whatever the primitive drives _15_ motivate human beings, satisfying them depends heavily on the ability to _16_ future circumstances. The attempt to predict is often played in a _17_ of knowledge and understanding. If you can understand why certain regular patterns _18_, you can predict better than if you simply observe those patterns. Thus, human inquiry aims _19_ answering both what and why question, and we pursue these _20_ by observing and figuring out. 　　1. A. exhibit B. exaggerate C. examine D. exceed 　　2. A. contexts B. circumstances C. inspections D. intuitions 　　3. A. underestimate B. undermine C. undertake D. undergo 　　4. A. especially B. particularly C. always D. generally 　　5. A. somehow B. somebody C. someone D. something 　　6. A. enact B. affect C. reflect D. inflect 　　7. A